NWPB Presents
Etsuko Ichikawa
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Etsuko Ichikawa - Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art WSU Artist Spotlight
Featured Art: Etsuko Ichikawa, Vitrified, 2018-2020
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NWPB Presents is a local public television program presented by NWPB
NWPB Presents
Etsuko Ichikawa
Episode 4 | 1mVideo has Closed Captions
Featured Art: Etsuko Ichikawa, Vitrified, 2018-2020
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorshipEtsuko Ichikawa was born in 1963 in Tokyo.
She's a Seattle based artist and when the Fukushima nuclear meltdown occurred in 2011, she visited the Hanford Site and learned about vitrification technology, which is aimed at containing high level radioactive waste for safe storage in glass.
That knowledge really inspired her to create Broken Poems of Fireflies, which was a room sized installation of glowing glass orbs containing uranium at our museum in 2020.
It was accompanied by a trilogy of films.
One of them was vitrified, which is currently on view at the museum with one of the orbs which we were able to purchase for our permanent collection.
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